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If you’re not winning and you’re not crashing, you’re not trying HARD ENOUGH!
Jimmy Trash has finally released his 2019 documentary ‘Hard Enough’, a film uncovering the link between a difficult family history, the pressure he felt to be a professional racer and the untold story of the Golden Era of Australian dirt track racing. We sat down with him to tell us about the making of the film.
So, first of all, what gave you the inspiration to make a film about sprint car racing? What was your initial approach?
I just wanted to make a second film with my mentor, Mario Bucci about this dirty, egomaniac and untold story of Sprint Car racing. But as soon as we started shooting, I realised it had to be about my father and I as well, which demanded lot deeper involvement than i imagined at first.
How did the making of the film affect your family?
The film forced me to understand the world my father was saturated in for most of his lifetime that he lived parallel to his family life. And in turn he had to explain things about his own life that he never had to explain to anybody before about competition, addiction and fanaticism. Understanding his fanaticism helped me understand parts of my own personality as well. In the end it was healing after a difficult process.
Why did more than two years pass by until the release of ‘Hard Enough’?
Hard Enough was my second film and the first one where i had the chance of a possible sale. I was completely naive to the process and fought two years with contract disagreements. But in the end it was more important to me that people see these unique perspectives of the old generation of racers that we managed to get together in this film and prove that they have a vulnerable side. I’m hoping to learn from my mistakes and sell my third film that is currently in pre-production.
Watch the full documentary ‘Hard Enough’ by Jimmy Trash & Mario Bucci!
Charlie Megira documentary ‘Tomorrow’s Gone’ screening at the 2021 Miami Jewish Film Festival
It is our pleasure to share an upcoming worldwide screening event of Tomorrow’s Gone, the 2019 documentary film about Charlie Megira directed by his long time friend Boaz Goldberg. The film documents the struggles of Charlie Megira (born Gabi Abudraham) from a friend’s point of view using personal, behind-the-scenes footage. This is great news for those who are fascinated by the mysterious persona of Charlie Megira because so far there has been very little to actually know about him (by the way, we had the honour to interview him in 2014, check that out here)
So, if you are a fan of the otherworldly music of Charlie Megira, join us online at the Miami Jewish Film Festival from 15-29 April.
Free tickets are available for pre-order at the festival’s website. The virtual screening offers English subtitles and you are welcome to donate money to support the festival.
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Take a Nightride with The Pussywarmers
from the sunset till the sunrise
THE PUSSYWARMERS is a Swiss band. I wrote some years ago about them
„The Pussywarmers is a band of a traveling circus. They play swing for the rope-dancers, blues for the knife thrower, tarantella for the lion tamer, dixieland for the magician, cha-cha-cha for the trapezists, tango for the bears, polka for the poodles, waltz for the monkeys and criss-cross for the clowns on four languages.”
They have recently released the Nightride EP under the name of THE PUSSYWARMERES & RÉKA’S ELEKTRONISCHE ABTEILUNG via Annibale Records. And it is totally different than their previous recordings. So I have had to ask what is the story of this project?
Réka: At the beginning of the year we introduced „The Pussywarmers & Réka’s Jizz Ensemble” which represents our „Tropical Big Band”. For the new record we decided to strip down to a quartet: „Elektronische Abteilung” which means „Electronic Department”. It´s a concept for an „Alter Ego Band”. Inventing this band in a Band-Project lead to more freedom in the creative process of composing and recording.
We have a hideout in the mountains of Italy where we are only allowed to play in a low volume. These situations forced us to play around with loops which we kept on sometimes for hours. This sounds and loops created sometimes states of hypnosis. In this new found state we also started to experiment with new sounds and instruments. For „Nightride” we wanted to capture those moods and used instruments that would reflect perfectly those nights. From the sunset till the sunrise.
„Nightride” is very cinematique, so a big influence – for this new way of writing and recording music – were definitely movies. In Zürich exists the Institute of Incoherent Cinematography. Pablo Assandri – the head of IOIC – organizes silent movie events to which he invites musicians to create new film scores for these movies in a live situation. He invited us a couple of times and we loved it. To compose music to images is a very different approach. Music can be created which would never arise in normal practicing situations. Characters and scenes of the movie can become your muses. For example we played for Fred Niblo’s film The Temptress (1926).
The event series is called „The Underworld in Silent Film”. Here is an old trailer just for the feeling
Next silent film event will be on 30 March. Marena Whitcher’s Shady Midnight Orchestra will play on the film Der Geisterzug (Ghost Train, Germany/UK, 1927) by Géza von Bolváry.
NEXT PUSSYWARMERS & RÉKA SHOWS
30.3.2017 / Geneve (CH) / Bongo Joe / NIGHTRIDE RELEASE TOUR
1.3.2017 / Basel (CH) / tba / NIGHTRIDE RELEASE TOUR
1.4.2017 / Zurich (CH) / Bundeshaus Residency 68 / NIGHTRIDE
Hey Butt! What The Fuck?
A new series on RNR666 about serious questions. Next chapter
TALES OF DESIRE
PALBERTA is a band, three girls from Upstate New York. Best describe their music what I’ve found on their FB page
„You wanna wabbada? Wap wap wap dabbada?
You see that mabada? ding ding dack dabbada?”
Their new album has been released recently on Wharf Cat Records. I was listening to it when I suddenly burst out – Hú bazmeg!
It was the 5th song, titled Nose. Hú bazmeg! is a Hungarian phrase, we use it on the occasion of sudden revelation, surprise, shock or in similar cases. For example when you drink a shot of spirit, and it is unexpectedly strong. It means literally Oh fuck!
This was the moment when I have thought I ask them what they are reading. I don’t know why.
Lily: I most recently finished reading Tales of Desire by Tennessee Williams just began Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse. I read Tales of Desire because my dad gave it to me for my birthday and I trust his taste. It was really freaky and awesome and I highly recommend it. I’ll get back to you about Narcissus and Goldmund when I’m done. It’s the story of a young man, Goldmund, who wanders aimlessly throughout Medieval Germany after leaving a Catholic monastery school in search of what could be described as „the meaning of life,” or rather, the meaning of his life.
Ani: I just finished I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. For some reason, I slacked on reading this book and it is amazing. A super emotional book and reading it in our current political climate is so heavy and also necessary.
– Excuse me, that I am cutting into, but I need to explain what is so heavy.
At the age of eight Maya Angelou was sexually abused and raped by her mother’s boyfriend. She told her brother, who told the rest of their family. The man was found guilty but was jailed for only one day. Four days after his release, he was murdered, probably by Angelou’s uncles. Angelou became mute for almost five years. Later she held many jobs, among others worked as a prostitute, table dancer, and madame.
Learned modern dances and became a professional dancer, joined the civil rights movement in 1960, and maybe of course, she was also a pro-Castro activist, but like so many other fans she also did not know anything about the real nature of the Castro regime, she just wanted to believe her dreams.
In the first half of the 60s she lived in Africa, first in Egypt – with a South-African lawyer and civil rights activist -, later in the newly independent Ghana. She worked as an editor and journalist for various media as The Arab Observer, African Review, Ghanaian Times and Radio Ghana, but also worked and performed for Ghana’s National Theatre.
In Ghana, she met with Malcolm X. Then she went back into the States and helped him to build the pan-black Organization of Afro-American Unity, which was described as a threat to the national security by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Mr. X. was assassinated by members of the concurrent black power organization Nation of Islam in 1965. Not long after Angelou’s first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was published. It is up to 1944 when she was 17.
Ani – So I just finished it. Now I’m in a totally different direction, or maybe not but I have yet to find out. I am starting the book Dune. I’m trying to explore the other worlds out there and I haven’t spent much time in the science fiction realm so here it goes!
– Do you know about the never realized film adaptation by Chilean director Jodorowsky? Starring Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Alain Delon, Hervé Villechaize, Mick Jagger, and Salvador Dali as the mad emperor of the galaxy. With the music of Stockhausen, Henry Cow, and Magma. It was planned in 1975 and was so grandiose that a documentary has been made about the unmade film.
Nina – I am reading a book called The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, and am loving it so much because it’s an incredibly bold, courageous, smart, funny, insightful memoir. I feel like I am learning new, nuanced ways of thinking about gender – specifically lesbian and trans identity -, motherhood, and identity in general.
– On the picture lying the body of Jane Mixer, aunt of Maggie Nelson. She wrote two books about the murder of her aunt. Jane was a 23 years old law student in 1969. She posted a note on a college ride-share bulletin board, seeking a lift to her hometown. She was strangled with a nylon stocking and shot twice in the head with a .22. The killer pulled up her jumper to reveal her underwear, then carefully covered the body with her yellow raincoat and positioned it atop a grave, and set Mixer’s shoes and her copy of „Catch-22” near the body.
He was unveiled in 2002 on the basis of three drops of sweat and one drop of blood which were found on the victim’s panties.
A savage journey into the heart of Japanese rock and roll underground
GARAGE ROCKIN’ CRAZE
a film about the Japanese rock and roll underground
Music: „Fire Starter” by TEXACO LEATHERMAN
„Some acts have bummed around with Daddy-O for nearly 30 years. They’re not getting signed to a major label anytime soon. Why keep at it? The director Mario Cuzik thinks it’s the creative element.
“When art is your job you lose freedom. I don’t see people chasing fame. They value freedom, even if it means working a second job. They don’t need a producer telling them how to make sales and grow a fan base.”
„I’m a 1 percenter and I hate the other 99 percent,” 57-year-old concert promoter Daddy-O-Nov says with a laugh. He works as an assistant plumber installing combination bathrooms to finance his events and record label, Radio Underground Records, that specializes in undiscovered acts.”
Mario Cuzik YouTube page with many live videos
and the birds begin fall from the sky
Cora 19 years old has just returned to Bucco, the village of her childhood. She works for her father Michele, mayor of the town, in the organization of the important celebration of the Virgin of Bucco, an annual event that attracts many Christian pilgrims and tourists. But the arrival of a mysterious man named Saverio, gradually destabilizes the harmony of the town by reveling of a crime committed forty years ago by the people of the village, whose main instigator would be Cora’s father. And the birds begin fall from the sky
IL NIDO / THE NEST a film by Swiss/Peruvian director Klaudia Reynicke.
Music by Swiss post pop art punk band PETER KERNEL
Anyway Bucco is a genus of puffbird in South-America, but buco means hole in Italian.
Lust macht frei
The film Desire Will Set You Free paints a picture of contemporary underground Berlin. It’s based on a true story: Ezra, an American writer of Palestinian and Israeli parentage living in Berlin, spends his days clubbing, taking drugs, having pseudo-philosophical conversations and wanting to be more punk, whilst wishing he wrote more. Most of his time is spent with his privileged dark, but witty friend Catharine, who has an unsettling fetish for Nazi paraphernalia. As the two of them look for their next excitement fix, they end up in one of Berlin’s famous gay hustler bars. Almost on a dare Ezra meets Sasha, a Russian immigrant working as an escort. Ezra pulls Sasha on a journey through Berlin’s underground and queer scenes…
Of course there is a soundtrack wich was inspired by trash music films from the 70s and 80s. There Blood Orange plays a Malaria! song, Peaches did a cover of Claire Waldoff the great lesbian cabaret singer from the 1920s, and also you can find songs by Molly Nilsson, Rollin Hunt, Anni Rossi, Nina Hagen, The Prostitutes, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
and more. Furthermore Einstuerzende Neubauten and Blixa Bargeld appear in the movie too.
The soundtrack album will be released soon by Moniker Records (US)
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American director Yoni Leyser‘s previous film, a documentary about W.S.Burroughs, also with many musicians like Sonic Youth, Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Jello Biafra or Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.
Are you intereseted in revolution?
The Civil Rights struggle has gotten this treatment in particular. Its now been ossified as a series of marches and sit-ins which led to the overturning of the most glaring US racial inequalities, and which culminated in the the martyrdom of Martin Luther King Jr. With the riots following MLKs assassination, and the malaise following his death, „the movement” lost its hope, drive, and focus.
But Civil Rights was never just the monolith of angry Malcolm vs. peaceful Martin, and the history channel wants the population to forget that the „movement” was radicalized beyond what is generally understood.
In the 60’s therefore, the nation stood on the precipice of some kind of revolution. In many ways, the country experienced a civil war.
The INVADERS of Memphis were like an intellectual street gang with incredible style, who devoted themselves to justice and confronting white supremacy. A group or „gang” of organizers, they were on the front lines of the struggle in the South, and experienced extraordinary harassment, violence, and imprisonment. They conducted the last meeting with King at the Lorraine Motel before he was murdered, and yet their story is almost unknown.
THE INVADERS, a fast-moving re-telling with a funky soundtrack produced by King Khan and Jack Oblivian
Two soundtrack 7″ singles from King Khan and his band
on limited military marijuana green vinyl:
mixed and mastered by Nene Barratto (Movie Star Junkies)
„Wake Up New York You Fuckers!!!” – Jefferson Airplane Wakes Up New York, Jean-Luc Godard Captures It (1968)
Just when you think you’ve seen everything Jean-Luc Godard has ever shot, something like this surfaces. If you’re only now considering tucking into the feast that is Godard’s filmography, don’t let his abundance of uncollected odds, ends, clips, and shorts intimidate you. Not only do they promise a little thrill down the road when you’ve already digested his major works, but they offer quick bursts at any time of the revolutionary cinematic zest with which the filmmaker took on the world. With the man alive and working, I should perhaps say “the revolutionary cinematic zest with which the filmmaker takes on the world,” but that gets into one of the most fascinating conversations that swirls around him: has Godard still got it?
Some say yes, that his latest picture Film Socialisme presents the logical continuation of all Godard has ever represented; some say no, that the Godard to watch remains the scrappy star of the 1960s’ French New Wave. In his study Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, New Yorker film blogger Richard Brody somehow makes both claims. In the chapter “Revolution (1968-1972)” he describes Godard’s improvised method of shooting a 1968 Jefferson Airplane concert:
„He took over from the specialists and operated the camera from the window of Leacock-Pennebaker‘s office on West Forty-fifth street, shooting the band on the roof of the Schuyler Hotel across the street. (Pennebaker recalled him to be an amateurish cameraman who could not avoid the beginner’s pitfall of frequent zooming in and out.) The performance took place without a permit, at standard rock volume: as singer Grace Slick later wrote, “We did it, deciding that the cost of getting out of jail would be less than hiring a publicist…”
Amateurish or not, a piece of the footage has surfaced on YouTube. Listen to the Airplane perform “The House at Pooneil Corners,” watch Godard’s dramatic swings of focus and zoom as he attempts to convey the spectacle of the band and the spectacle of countless surprised Manhattanites at once, and think for yourself about this peculiar intersection of two bold lines in the era’s alternative zeitgeist. As Jefferson Airplane co-founder Paul Kantner said in a 1986 interview, “Just for a while there, maybe for about 25 minutes in 1967, everything was perfect.” But these seven minutes in November 1968, from opening shouts to inevitable arrest, don’t seem so dull themselves.
Grace Jones, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins együtt, egy filmben!
Egyelőre annyit tudni hogy:
– Gutterdämmerung lesz a címe
– ITT követheted a produkciót Twitteren
– úgy hírdetik, hogy ez lesz „a leghangosabb néma film”
– Bjorn Tagemose rendezi
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